GPT-2 is a Transformer architecture that was notable for its size (1.5 billion parameters) on its release. The model is pretrained on a WebText dataset - text from 45 million website links. It largely follows the previous GPT architecture with some modifications:
Layer normalization is moved to the input of each sub-block, similar to a pre-activation residual network and an additional layer normalization was added after the final self-attention block.
A modified initialization which accounts for the accumulation on the residual path with model depth is used. Weights of residual layers are scaled at initialization by a factor of $1/\sqrt{N}$ where $N$ is the number of residual layers.
The vocabulary is expanded to 50,257. The context size is expanded from 512 to 1024 tokens and a larger batch size of 512 is used.
Paper | Code | Results | Date | Stars |
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Task | Papers | Share |
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Language Modelling | 164 | 19.85% |
Text Generation | 95 | 11.50% |
Sentence | 40 | 4.84% |
Question Answering | 25 | 3.03% |
Retrieval | 17 | 2.06% |
Response Generation | 12 | 1.45% |
Dialogue Generation | 12 | 1.45% |
Translation | 12 | 1.45% |
Text Classification | 10 | 1.21% |